Meta introduces Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, its first natively multimodal models built with a mixture-of-experts architecture. The launch comes amid questions about Maverick’s LMArena score.
On July 23, 2024, Meta released Llama 3.1 in 8-billion, 70-billion and 405-billion-parameter sizes. Downloadable weights increase control, but do not remove inference costs, the custom licence or the need to evaluate the whole system.
Meta has released Llama 3, with 8 billion- and 70 billion-parameter models, and rolled out its Meta AI assistant across its main apps. The company aims to make generative AI an everyday feature for billions of users.
Meta released Llama 2 on 18 July 2023 with a paper carrying the word “open” in its title. The licence you must accept to download it contains two clauses the OSI’s Open Source Definition does not allow: a 700-million-user threshold, and a ban on using its outputs to improve any other model. Neither scandal nor trick — the industry norm. Here are the verbatim clauses, the contrast with the definition, and the three questions that let you read any “open” model licence in five minutes.
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